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The Morning Astorian
Astoria, Clatsop County, Oregon
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Dr. Mitsukuri, in Chicago on Nov. 23, announces that Japan's official history, which he will write, will credit the United States and Commodore Matthew C. Perry for Japan's modernization and liberation from semi-civilization in 1854.
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The United States Caused Regeneration of Japan.
CHICAGO, Nov. 23-The United States will be given practically all the credit for the greatness of modern Japanese and Commodore Perry will be lauded as the country's liberator in an official history of the empire about to be written by Dr. Mitsukuri, an instructor in the University of Japan at Tokio. Dr. Mitsukuri who is in Chicago on his way home from Europe was delegated by the educational department of his government to study the histories of European nations in order that he might acquire the best methods for the compilation of the annals of his country. He has spent two years on these studies in the universities of Berlin and Paris.
"Writing the history, it will be my purpose to accord to the United States full credit for the regeneration of Japan," said Dr. Mitsukuri. "This country was our source of inspiration and our protection in our time of trial and tribulation-our rescuer from the state of semi-civilization which was succeeded in the later half of the century just closed by the progressive government we now have.
"Your great commodore, Matthew C. Perry, when he sailed into the Bay of Yeddo in the month of February, 1854, came our liberator. We have erected a statue to his memory, but his fame shall be preserved in a manner more enduring than stone or brass. The future students of our history shall know him for what he was. He sought only justice for his country when the greatest opportunities for the working out of sinister designs on our nation presented themselves."
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Japan
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Nov. 23
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official history to credit united states for japan's regeneration and commodore perry as liberator.
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Dr. Mitsukuri, delegated by Japanese government to study European histories, states in Chicago that the upcoming official history of Japan will give full credit to the United States for inspiring and protecting Japan during its trials, rescuing it from semi-civilization to a progressive government. He highlights Commodore Perry's arrival in Bay of Yeddo in February 1854 as liberation, with a statue already erected and his role to be enduringly preserved in history.